Winter is my favorite season too. Very comfortable–much drier, not as blast-furnace hot. It lasts five or six months, and it’s wonderful! Such a difference from winter in Minnesota, which is often so, so cold. Like -20 with frigid wind chills.

Cool? I’ve just been reading, open-mouthed, Bill Bryson’s ‘Down Under’. What an amazing country Australia is, in so many aspects. He doesn’t say anything about ‘cool’ though 🙂 That bird looks like one of Kath Unsworth’s (Oz blogger) grumpy bird sketches.

Oh I know Kath Unsworth, Roy! She’s a fantastic artist 😀
I’m sure I’ve got that Bill Bryson book somewhere in one of my bookshelves (I’m not very organised with my books like a friend of mine who keeps his like a library) 😉 Australia is a truly remarkable place xxx

I am constantly amazed at your photography, Dianne! And what a treat it must be to wake up and have these images outside your home!
If I ever win the lottery, I am coming to see your RUC and countryside in Australia!!

We’re on the tailend of our summer, but it never got oppressively hot or humid. We usually have to endure a heat wave, but I don’t think that ever happened. Maybe that’s why I don’t feel like I had too much of a summer?!

Your foggy winter sounds like what I experienced (and LOVED) when I lived in the SF bay area. I found (still find) the fog so romantic as I watched it creepy crawl over the Golden Gate Bridge and fill up the bay. The smell and the feel of that fog – delicious. Enjoy your cool winter. We’re at the tail end of a sweet summer season here. The tomatoes are harvested, the pumpkins growing for Halloween. Just had the last of the sweet yellow corn. Ah, seasons.
Your little bird obviously woke up on the wrong side of the nest that morning!!! :-0

I love the fog too, Pam. This morning it’s rolled in again and the full moon is setting over the mountains – what a beautiful morning it is!
I hope you’re safe from that awful storm that looks like hitting in the next few days xxxx

I’m envious of your fog. We share the same love of the full moon – here it is so glorious to watch as I listen to the chirp of the crickets, frantically living life to their end. The horrendous hurricane that is marching into the US will enter Florida, where my several good friends live. I’m biting my nails over this one- sounds like a monster.

Oh yes – I know what you mean, After living in Canberra for a while I would much rather be in bed than walking around in that fog. At least I don’t have to scrape the ice off the cars here in the morning 😉